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When Faculty of Arts and Sciences Information Technology held a focus group last spring to discuss a potential new e-mail system, Trevor J. Bakker ’10 had his share of complaints to voice.The current junior says he was so concerned about the limited quota on the existing Faculty of Arts and Sciences Webmail client that when FAS IT announced the creation of a new e-mail service with the domain name @college.harvard.edu in November, he signed up the next day.Since then, Bakker says he has had no problems with the 10-gigabyte mailbox size. And despite...
...greater availability of trade finance, which had dried up as banks clamped down on lending in late 2008, hamstringing global trade. But China, the world's third-largest economy, is likely a more crucial factor in the turnaround. China sits in the middle of an increasingly important trading system within Asia. Countries like Japan, South Korea and Indonesia export capital goods, components and raw materials to China, where they are used to manufacture final products for shipment to the West. This network broke down as demand in the U.S. and Europe shriveled, but economists say China's stimulus program might...
First, there was the case of "hide and seek." Then there was the "nightmare" and the "shower case." As the improbable explanations for deaths of prisoners in China's criminal justice system grows, so have the doubts of legal experts and average citizens alike. The government has pledged open investigations into the deaths, but critics question its will to change the infamously opaque system. Beijing has launched a training program to improve the conditions of the country's jails, but legal experts argue that deeper reforms are needed to stem the violence...
...prisoners," he says. "While the lines of responsibility leading to local police should be clear, we are not talking about acts of brutality carried out directly by police, which would be far more sensitive." And, Bandurski adds, "We are talking also about the very bottom rungs of the police system, so big heads are not rolling...
...When the number of reported deaths rose to 15 by late April, authorities declared the new campaign to crack down on "improper management" and "slack supervision" by police and prosecutors would be extended to five months. Some critics argue that the system needs more fundamental reforms before it can begin to reduce prison deaths, and that the ultimate blame lies with police, not rogue inmates. Because many of the victims have been suspects, not convicts, legal experts suspect the abuses are connected with the Chinese legal system's long-standing reliance on confessions to secure criminal convictions...